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Music-specific

• Common terms used in German publications and thematic indices
• The names of numbers in French, German, Italian, and Spanish | other languages | Numerals in various languages: Indo-European languages (Wikipedia)
• The names of keys in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish
• The names of instruments and voices in English, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish
• Capitalization of key, opus, and number
• Online translating dictionary for music: Cadenza glossary: a multi-lingual dictionary of musical terms English, French, German, and Serbian
• See also Music terminology

General

• Diacritics and special characters by language
• List of initial articles: by language | complete list in alphabetical order from LC
• Bibiographic terms in other languages: Foreign language equivalents for bibliographic information (Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish) (Internet Archive version)
• Distinguishing between Catalan and Spanish
• Fraktur
• Russian and other Cyrillic languages
  • ALA-LC transliteration tables: Russian (cursive Russian [not ALA-LC]) | Ukrainian (cursive Ukrainian [not ALA-LC])
    • Transliteration of the hard sign (tverdyi znak) from the Slavic Cataloging Manual
  • Cyrillic language alphabets and how they diverge from one another
  • Online transliterator note: may not follow the ALA-LC transliteration schemes
• Woxikon translates words and word sequences in Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish
• Online dictionaries: Travlang's translating dictionaries | Reverso translation | Lingvosoft | Hungarian | Portuguese | Welsh to English Lexicon
• Language identifier